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- Masukagami
Tsuinikaku shizumihatsubeki mukuiaraba uenakimitowa naniumareken
If it was decreed that I should sink so utterly in the end, why was I born to a rank with none above it?
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Isashirazu naoukikatano matamoaraba konoyadototemo shinobareyasen
I cannot tell. If there is a place more wretched still, shall I come to remember even this lodging with longing?
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Shirubesuru michikosoarazu narinutomo yodonowatariwa wasureshimoseji
Though the office of guiding me is no longer yours, I shall not forget this ford at Yodo.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Hanawanao tomaruarujini kataraeyo warekosotabini tachiwakarutomo
Blossom, stay and keep company with the master of this house, though I must set out and part from you.
Masukagami - Prince Takayoshi
Inochiareba koyanonokibano tsukimomitsu mataikanaran yukusuenosora
Because I still live I have seen even this moon over the eaves at Koya; and what will the sky of the days ahead be?
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Itosemete ukihitoyarino michinagara onajitomarito kikuzoureshiki
Bitter beyond words is this road that others force on us; and yet to hear that we lodge in the same place tonight is a happiness.
Masukagami - Prince Takayoshi
Mizunoawano kieteukiyoo watarumino urayamashikiwa amanotsuribune
Vanishing like foam, I make my way across a bitter world; what I envy is the fisherman's boat.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Hanawanao ukiyomowakazu sakitekeri miyakomoimaya sakarinaruramu
The blossom has opened without regard to how bitter the world is; must it be at its height in the capital too?
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Atomiyuru michinoshiorino sakurabana konoyamabitono nasakeozoshiru
Cherry blossom set as a marker where the track can be seen: by it I know the kindness of these mountain folk.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Awaretowa nanjimomiruran wagatamito omoukokorowa imamokawarazu
You too, I think, look on me with pity; and my heart, which thinks of you as my people, is unchanged even now.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Yosoninomi omoizoyarishi omoikiya taminokamadoo kakutemintowa
From far off only I used to think of them; but did I ever think I should see the people's hearths like this?
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Kawaranuo katamitonashite sakuhanano miyakowanaomo shinobarenikeru
The blossom opens, keeping its unchangingness as a keepsake; and at the sight the capital comes back to me.
Masukagami - Chigusa Tadaaki
Iromokamo kawaranushimozo ukarikeru miyakonohokano hananokozuewa
That neither colour nor scent is changed is just what makes it bitter—these flowering treetops outside the capital.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Ukitabito omoiwahateji hitoedano hananonasakeno kakaruoriniwa
I will not think this journey wholly bitter, when at such a time the kindness of a single flowering branch is offered.
Masukagami - Chigusa Tadaaki
Hananoharu mataminkotono katakikana onajimichioba yukikaerutomo
How hard it will be to see a spring of blossom again, even if I travel this same road back.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Kikiokishi kumenosarayama koeyukan michitowakanete omoiyahaseshi
Kume no Sarayama, whose name I had long known: did I ever think that I should cross it as a road?
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo